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Wednesday
07Feb2007

100 Years From Now, All New People

... with the exception of a few people born last week or last month who will become centenarians.

98+ % of all people 100 years from now will also have grown up with their lives interwoven through with hyperlinks, digital media, the Web and so on.

There will enormous new ranges and forms of behaviour, both for the good and without doubt other aspects that will extract an enormous price in terms of cognition, attention, understanding, social alienation, etc.

The impacts are faintly visible, may seem clear ... but are yet to be put into focus, put to use and understood well enough to be put to use (most decision-makers are still very wary, not accustomed to letting the illusion of control slip from their grasp.

I'll bet any of my regular readers will not be surprised that I see this video that has recently been a hit on YouTube as highly supportive of the concept of wirearchy.

The Machine Is Us/ing Us

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